I’m not sure any of these projects can match the scope of Minecraft obsessive Roman DeNu’s accomplishment, though: a complete recreation of the overworld from the classic SNES game The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past crafted in-game and entirely by hand, no external tools used or required.

We don’t even want to think of what Roman’s personal life must be like that he could dedicate such a huge swathe of time to such an obsessive task. Needless to say, Roman spent 108 hours and 59 minutes building a 512 x 512, 104 block simulacrum of Link’s most familiar overworld… and he doesn’t intend on stopping things there. He also plans to continue the project by recreating the Dark World and — once Notch introduces instancing — all of the games’ interiors from the buildings down to the caves and dungeons.